Just Enough and Nothing More

In an online discussion about oversight and assessment, this little gem about testing came up in the conversation.

The problem is that ‘integrating in civil society’ is just by no means defined well enough to create enough consensus to make any means of monitoring or testing acceptable without letting one view of life prevail above others. A state that does that cannot stay ‘neutral’. It would lead to blatant dicrimination between sets of moral values, one way around or the other. - Peter van Zuidam

Good point Peter, that I hadn’t thought of. One doesn’t generally make a connection between “concrete” testing numbers and the imposition of moral values, but any decision about what is important is a moral value. Whose view of life is “right”, and how do we determine who gets to choose what the entire country’s children moral and life focus should be?

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